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Workaholism From a Cross-Cultural Perspective

The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel

Itzhak Harpaz

University of Haifa, Israel

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This version was published on November 1, 2009

Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 43, No. 4, 303-308 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1069397109336987


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